On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, David Flanagan wrote:
>
> Jonas Sicking wrote:
> > I'm not sure that we actually need to specify this. A UA supporting cookies
> > should use them in any and all http transfers. If we go and specify how
> > every possible web feature interact with XHR we're never going to get done.
>
> So then you just need to add something to the spec that makes it
> perfectly clear that XMLHttpRequest scripts the HTTP subsystem of the
> UA, and does not create its own network connections and implement
> rudimentary HTTP itself...
Whether it uses the UA's HTTP library or a separate one, that doesn't
change what HTTP and other RFCs require for the implementation to be
considered conformant.
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